critical apparatus

British  

noun

1. Also called: apparatus criticus.  the variant readings, footnotes, etc found in a scholarly work or a critical edition of a text

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Example Sentences

There's the fourth leg, which is half-born: a cultivated critical apparatus which is separate from the commercial machine.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2018

Some art demands it, no matter how dull or corrupt the critical apparatus of the viewer.

From The New Yorker • May 28, 2017

Something feels not quite right about subjecting Don DeLillo to the ordinary critical apparatus.

From New York Times • May 2, 2016

Though the book labours under a critical apparatus that might have been thought de trop if the subject had been Wittgenstein, it is not helpful in telling us about, for example, Taylor's father.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

So too Herodotus is by no means without a philosophical view of things, nor without a critical instinct, although his generalisations are sometimes vague or fanciful, and his critical apparatus rudimentary.

From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount